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quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. First Sgt. Michael S. Barnhill, 39, of Folsom, Calif., died May 28 after his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device near Haqlaniyah, Iraq. He was assigned to the Marine Forces ReserveÔÇÖs 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Force Service Support Group, Eugene, Ore. During Operation Iraqi Freedom his unit was attached to 2nd FSSG, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lt. Col. Albert E. Smart, 41, of San Antonio, Texas, died May 28 in Doha, Qatar, of a non-combat related illness. Smart was assigned to the U.S. Army Reserve's 321st Civil Affairs Brigade, San Antonio, Texas.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Phillip N. Sayles, 26, of Jacksonville, Ark., died May 28 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his security position. Sayles was assigned to the Army's 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.Link May you rest in peace...

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on May 27 from injuries sustained on May 26 in Buhriz, Iraq, when their OH-58 (Kiowa Warrior) came under small arms attack and crashed. Both soldiers were assigned to the Army's 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. The soldiers are: CW4 Matthew Scott Lourey, 40, of East Bethel, Minn. CW2 Joshua Michael Scott, 28, of Sun Prairie, WisLink May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Mark A. Maida, 22, of Madison, Wis., died May 27 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Diyarah, Iraq, May 26 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Maida was assigned to the Army's 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Irwin, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Alfred B. Siler, 33, of Duff, Tenn., died May 25 in Tuz, Iraq, when his HMMWV hit another vehicle. Siler was assigned to the Army National Guard's Support Squadron, 278th Regimental Combat Team, Knoxville, Tenn.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Maj. Ricardo A. Crocker, 39, of Mission Viejo, Calif., died May 26 from a rocket propelled grenade explosion while conducting combat operations in Hadithah, Iraq. Crocker was assigned to the Marine Forces ReserveÔÇÖs 3rd Civil Affairs Group, Camp Lejeune, N.C. During Operation Iraqi Freedom his unit was attached to II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on May 23 in Haswa, Iraq, when their military vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. The soldiers are: Spec. Bryan Edward Barron, 26, of Biloxi, Miss. Barron was assigned to the Army National Guard's C Company, 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry, Biloxi, Miss. Spec. Audrey Daron Lunsford, 29, of Sardis, Miss. Lunsford was assigned to the Army National Guard's Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry, McComb, Miss. Staff Sgt. Saburant Parker, 43, of Foxworth, Miss. Parker was assigned to the Army National Guard's C Company, 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry, Biloxi, Miss. Sgt. Daniel Ryan Varnado, 23, of Saucier, Miss. Varnado was assigned to the Army National Guard's C Company, 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry, Biloxi, Miss.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. First Class Randy D. Collins, 36, of Long Beach, Calif., died May 24 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., of injuries sustained in Mosul, Iraq, May 4 during a mortar attack. Collins was assigned to the Army's 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Irwin, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. David N. Wimberg, 24, of Louisville, Ky., died May 25 from wounds received as a result of small-arms fire from enemy forces while conducting combat operations in Hadithah, Iraq. Wimberg was assigned to Marine Forces ReserveÔÇÖs 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Columbus, Ohio. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, his unit was attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

Link quote:By Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese | May 31, 2005 THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse. Minutes from a summer 2002 meeting involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal that the Bush administration was ''fixing" the intelligence to justify invading Iraq. US intelligence used to justify the war demonstrates repeatedly the truth of the meeting minutes -- evidence was thin and needed fixing. President Clinton was impeached for perjury about his sexual relationships. Comparing Clinton's misbehavior to a destructive and costly war occupation launched in March 2003 under false pretenses in violation of domestic and international law certainly merits introduction of an impeachment resolution. Eighty-nine members of Congress have asked the president whether intelligence was manipulated to lead the United States to war. The letter points to British meeting minutes that raise ''troubling new questions regarding the legal justifications for the war." Those minutes describe the case for war as ''thin" and Saddam as ''nonthreatening to his neighbors," and ''Britain and America had to create conditions to justify a war." Finally, military action was ''seen as inevitable . . . But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Indeed, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, nor any imminent threat to the United States: The International Atomic Energy Agency Iraq inspection team reported in 1998, ''there were no indications of Iraq having achieved its program goals of producing a nuclear weapon; nor were there any indications that there remained in Iraq any physical capability for production of amounts of weapon-usable material." A 2003 update by the IAEA reached the same conclusions. The CIA told the White House in February 2001: ''We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has . . . reconstitute[d] its weapons of mass destruction programs." Colin Powell said in February 2001 that Saddam Hussein ''has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction." The CIA told the White House in two Fall 2002 memos not to make claims of Iraq uranium purchases. CIA Director George Tenet personally called top national security officials imploring them not to use that claim as proof of an Iraq nuclear threat. Regarding unmanned bombers highlighted by Bush, the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center concluded they could not carry weapons spray devices. The Defense Intelligence Agency told the president in June 2002 that the unmanned aerial bombers were unproven. Further, there was no reliable information showing Iraq was producing or stockpiling chemical weapons or whether it had established chemical agent production facilities. When discussing WMD the CIA used words like ''might" and ''could." The case was always circumstantial with equivocations, unlike the president and vice president, e.g., Cheney said on Aug. 26, 2002: ''Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." The State Department in 2003 said: ''The activities we have detected do not . . . add up to a compelling case that Iraq is currently pursuing . . . an integrated and comprehensive approach to acquire nuclear weapons." The National Intelligence Estimate issued in October 2002 said ''We have no specific intelligence information that Saddam's regime has directed attacks against US territory." The UN, IAEA, the State and Energy departments, the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center, US inspectors, and even the CIA concluded there was no basis for the Bush-Cheney public assertions. Yet, President Bush told the public in September 2002 that Iraq ''could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given." And, just before the invasion, President Bush said: ''Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." The president and vice president have artfully dodged the central question: ''Did the administration mislead us into war by manipulating and misstating intelligence concerning weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to Al Qaeda, suppressing contrary intelligence, and deliberately exaggerating the danger a contained, weakened Iraq posed to the United States and its neighbors?" If this is answered affirmatively Bush and Cheney have committed ''high crimes and misdemeanors." It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists. A Resolution of Impeachment would be a first step. Based on the mountains of fabrications, deceptions, and lies, it is time to debate the ''I" word. Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate. Kevin Zeese is director of DemocracyRising.US.

Link quote:SANTA ROSA, Calif. - A former FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat," the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday. W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. His claim was revealed Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, and family members said they believe his account is true. "The family believes my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice," a family statement read by grandson Nick Jones said. "We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well." Felt, who lives with his daughter Joan in Santa Rosa and is in declining health, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said. "My grandfather is pleased he is being honored for his role as Deep Throat with his friend Bob Woodward," Jones said. "As he recently told my mother, `I guess people used to think Deep Throat was a criminal, but now they think he was a hero.'" The Washington Post had no immediate comment on the report. The existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for a popular porn movie of the early 1970s, was revealed in Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling book "All the President's Men." In the hit movie based on the book, Deep Throat was played by Hal Holbrook. But his identity of the source whose disclosures helped bring down the Nixon presidency remained a mystery. Among those named over the years as Deep Throat were Assistant Attorney General Henry Peterson, deputy White House counsel Fred Fielding, and even ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer, who then worked in the White House press office. Ron Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary, White House aide Steven Bull, speechwriters Ray Price and Pat Buchanan, and John Dean, the White House counsel who warned Nixon of "a cancer growing on the presidency," also were considered candidates. And some theorized Deep Throat wasn't a single source at all but a composite figure. In 1999, Felt denied he was the man. "I would have done better," Felt told The Hartford Courant. "I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?" In 2003, Woodward and Bernstein reached an agreement to keep their Watergate papers at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, the pair said documents naming "Deep Throat" would be kept secure at an undisclosed location in Washington until the source's death. MSNBC quoted Bernstein as saying Tuesday that he and Woodward would stick to their pledge not to say anything until Deep Throat dies. In the family statement, Jones said his grandfather believes "the men and women of the FBI who have put their lives at risk for more than 50 years to keep this country safe deserve recognition more than he." "On behalf of the Felt family we hope you see him as worthy of honor and respect as we do," Jones said.

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Link quote:HOUSTON - A tiny device about the size of a pocketwatch has treated hundreds of depression patients in clinical trials across the country. It's on the verge of being the first depression treatment device to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But the progress comes amid questions about whether the device's Houston-based manufacturer, Cyberonics Inc., has sufficiently proven that it's safe and it works. At age 3, Karmen McGuffee would spend sleepless nights worried about whether her little sister was still breathing. It wasn't until her late teens, after her mother found her on the floor in a fetal position, bleeding from self-inflicted deep scratches, that she was diagnosed with severe depression. "Medications would work for six months to a year. Then (doctors) would have to start all over or add another one or decrease one. That roller coaster went on from 19 until I was 28," said McGuffee, now a 34-year-old mother who lives in the Dallas suburb of Garland. The Vagus Nerve Stimulator finally helped, McGuffee said. The stimulator, which weighs less than an ounce, is similar to a pacemaker, delivering mild electrical pulses for 30 seconds every 5 minutes to the vagus nerve, a long nerve in the neck that carries information to many areas of the brain that control mood, sleep and other functions. Cyberonics originally spent 10 years and $70 million developing the device as a therapy for epilepsy, gaining FDA approval in July 1997. The company later learned that stimulating the vagus nerve also helped relieve depression. Nearly 19 million American adults suffer from depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Nearly 10 million of these adults experience major depression, which is often resistant to treatments such as psychotherapy, medications and shock therapy. The stimulator is implanted under the skin on the left side of a patient's chest. Another small incision is made in the neck to wrap small wires from it around the vagus nerve. The implant and surgery costs about $20,000. Side effects can include voice alteration, scratchy throat, cough and shortness of breath. "The effectiveness of the treatment improves over time and the nuisance side effects associated with the therapy decline over time, opposite most antidepressants," Cyberonics CEO Robert Cummins said. Although the device gave her a gravelly voice that quivers, Marna Davenport said the effects were worth it. Davenport, a 51-year-old college instructor from Columbia, S.C., had tried about 30 different kinds of medication combinations since she was 22, as well as shock treatment, but nothing worked. "It sort of robbed me of all the color in my life," she said of her depression. "I felt that one day it would kill me." Davenport got the device in January 2001, but didn't feel the full effect until 18 months later. She now considers herself the "happiest girl you ever met," but still takes antidepressants, eats well and exercises to control her depression. Davenport said she looks forward to final FDA approval for the device so others can benefit. In June 2004, an FDA advisory panel voted 5-2 to recommend approval for patients with major depression. But six of the seven panel members were concerned about Cyberonics' two main studies on the device in which the patients were not randomly assigned to receive the treatment or a placebo. Random assignments prevent those conducting the study from manipulating who gets the treatment and who gets a placebo. Cummins said the studies were conducted thoroughly enough to prove the treatment effective. Richard Malone, a professor of psychiatry at Drexel University in Philadelphia and one of the two FDA panel members who opposed the device's approval, criticized Cyberonics for not doing a true double-blind study, where neither the doctor nor patient knows if they are getting treatment or a placebo. "For most drugs, if you don't show efficacy in double blind studies, you haven't shown that it's effective," Malone said. The FDA went against its panel's recommendation and decided in August not to approve the device, saying it was concerned about the quality of the studies and that some patients' depression worsened even with the device. When Cyberonics gave the FDA more data showing that 18 percent of patients were depression free, 35 percent had reduced depressive symptoms by half and 57 percent had some benefit after two years of treatment, the FDA gave the stimulator preliminary approval in February. Final approval was expected by the end of May but continuing debate could delay that. On May 11, the consumer group Public Citizen wrote the FDA, opposing the approval of the device because it "does not come close to meeting FDA's approval standards, and may well do more harm than good." Cyberonics said the Senate Finance Committee was also examining the FDA's handling of the device's approval process. FDA spokeswoman Kathleen K. Quinn declined comment because the device's application is pending, and a committee spokeswoman did not return a call seeking comment. Final FDA approval could mean $1 billion in revenue by 2010, compared to $300 million in revenue for the device's treatment of epilepsy, Cyberonics predicts. The company's stock price has also dramatically risen and fallen during the approval process. The stock fell 27 cents on Friday to close at $37.51. It has traded in a range between $12.78 and $46.71 over the last year. John O'Reardon, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, said he would use it with patients. "It's had a rocky road to approval," he said. "I would say it probably does mean there is some question mark, but there is always some question mark when a new treatment is approved."

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When the industry's leading publisher speaks, we listen. At E3 last week, we were lucky enough to sit down with Frank Gibeau, EA's Senior Vice President of Marketing, North America. We picked Frank's brain about the big three console makers, console transitions, escalating costs, the portable market and much more. Dig in and enjoy...

well, what do you know, they found Tom DeLay's long lost twin! Anyways glad they arrested him, serves him right.

quote:Originally posted by Mano Faber: [QB] This looks pretty cool Drop Team looks nice! Will have to keep an eye on this one.

quote:Originally posted by DeepFreeze: Warning: Water is lethal when inhaled. Ban please.Ban granted.

quote:Originally posted by Cruis.In: demo download doesn't work. also screenshots don't come up. like half the buttons don't work. well they say the game is an alpha version, maybe they forgot to mention that the website is too.

Galactic Dream quote:a space-based strategy game in which four species are fighting for their very survival. This game brings you the shaped wings of your very galactic dreams: you will command starships and terifying space monsters in real time, choosing your side next to the infatuous Terran Galactic Federation, Aldarian Warfleets, Sandking Psyarmada and, not to forget, the aggressive "world slayers", for whom the space is never enough!cool, demo is available for download.

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quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Russell J. Verdugo, 34, of Phoenix, Ariz., died May 23, in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated as he was responding to a report of an improvised explosive device. Verdugo was assigned to the 767th Ordnance Company, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. 1st Class Peter J. Hahn, 31, of Metairie, La., died May 24, in Baghdad, Iraq, when his observation point was engaged by enemy forces using small arms fire. Hahn was assigned to the Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, 256th Brigade Combat Team, New Iberia, La.Link May you rest in peace...